Happy Record Store Day!

Sixth Sense exhibition at Central Gallery, Perth

My favourite was Mike Gray’s Unsettled Projections.

A few favourites from the Walkley Awards seen today at fotofreo

1. Stuart mcEvoy - Maria Domandi - She hid under her bed during Cyclone Yasi while the roof of her house blew away

2. Adam Pretty - 2011 world swimming championships

3. Ryan Pierse - Rope climbing at Ben Buckler

4. Mark Evans ‘The life of Riley’ the standard poodle

Mz Rizk at Steady Building, a discussion day between project leaders using hip hop as a tool for youth and community work, led by MC Que who asked me to document the day.

fotofreo: I’ve been indulging in photo exhibits and beach visits.

Taking in all types of photography, I’ve picked a few individual images with no particular order or category from today’s exhibitions

1. Murray Fredericks landscapes of Lake Eyre. This one at sunset, the colour of the yellows and blues on the print are amazing.

2. Eric Bridgeman… unexpected, culturally challenging, strong colour

3. Richard and Famous It made laugh. I wanted to post the one of Milli Vanilli but can’t find it, so Flava Flav will do.

4. Martin Parr No Worries. Martin Parr does WA… Not the most amaaaazing work of his, but was classic representation of his themes. One of my favourite photos was of a plate of food, slices of mortadella, sticks of cabanosi and some water cracker biscuits. Three food items that all say Australia to me.

5. Raghu Rai - Retrospective of his B&W images. Some beautiful classic images…

From drying Dad’s collection some record cover portraits

The Chinese restaurant on Chatsworth Road never did recover from this shooting…

From the archives: Mural of a woman boxer, Toronto 2001

Frida Kahlo © Emmy Lou Packard

As I’m a bit of a gypsy at the moment, I’m trying not accumulate things… Gallery bookshops make the photobook wishlist grow fast. Photobooks are the worst because you definitely want them hardcover and big…

Saw this yesterday, want it now: Portraits of an Icon: Frida Kahlo by Margaret Hooks - which has special photos like the Emmy Lou Packard one above.

A sneak peak of some work I’m doing for some ladies… part 2

A sneak peak of some work I’m doing for some ladies

Passed by a Streetball competition… got a bit distracted by peoples feet. Possibly cos they all so tall

Caribbean Rollerama, Scoresby, Victoria. Feb 2012.

My first trip down to this well known ‘preserved in time’ Rollerrink in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. Not many places like this left in the world. Amazing name - though there’s not much that is Caribbean in these parts!

Classic old leather hire skates remind me of pictures of the Empire Roller rink that closed down a couple of years ago in NYC by Kelly Shimoda.

I miss Silverspoon. I know I’m not going to hear the music, nor witness any JB skating, or my kind of dancing on skates, but we’re going back to the Caribbean Rollerama for a Saturday night skate real soon.

Darcus Howe address the crowd in Lewisham at the anti-fascist, anti-racist demo of 13th August 1977. © Syd Shelton

Nice to see Syd Shelton’s photographs getting some light. Autograph APB now representing his work (they have possibly poached him from the depths of the PYMCA archive, I know this image from when I was interning there). This is some history not to be forgotten.

Check here for more of Syd Shelton’s great street, music & portrait photography. Dope!

Great to see Autograph finally upgrade their website so you can enjoy the fruits of their image bank, a space to watch for further development. Dennis Morris & Colin Jones also photographers with seminal documentary work of Black British UK through the 70’s. Hoping Horace Ove pics will pop up there soon too…

Demolition B-Girl at The Hive, Melbourne 2012